The Best Experimental Games - Page 3

Update : Always Forward added at rank #18.
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EchoBlade (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 IOS iPhone Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Venture forth in this puzzle-combat dungeon explorer. Blinded and trapped inside a dungeon tower, every sound you make illuminates your path to freedom. Danger lurks around every corner: trapdoors, chambers filled with toxic fumes, and halls patrolled by crusader knights are only the beginning.


  • dark
  • action-adventure
  • atmospheric
  • minimalist
  • puzzle
  • medieval
  • experimental
  • dungeon
  • first-person
  • stealth
  • puzzle-combat
  • 3d
  • combat
  • explorer
  • war

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Estigma (2020)

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90
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PC Windows

Imagine Q-Bert + Pacman but with surrealistic horror aesthetics...

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  • experimental
  • horror
  • surreal
  • attack
  • score
  • movement
  • casual
  • 2d
  • 1980s
  • comedy
  • pixel
  • arcade
  • spin-off
  • grid

23

Ruff Night At The Gallery (2020)

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PC Windows

Ruff Night At The Gallery is an adorable short-form horror masterpiece featuring art, dogs, and spooky ghosts. Explore the gallery, find some keys, and admire the artwork...just don’t get licked!

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  • dog
  • walking-simulator
  • horror
  • cute
  • experimental
  • atmospheric
  • short-form
  • surreal
  • 3d
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • cartoony
  • first-person
  • funny

24

Piecing It Together (2024)

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PC Windows

Piecing It Together brings jigsaw puzzles to a whole new dimension. Reassemble beautiful dioramas with real 3D pieces! Enjoy a quick puzzling session with just a handful of pieces, or challenge yourself with many!

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  • experimental
  • tabletop
  • point-and-click
  • board-game
  • puzzle

25

SCP Strategy (2022)

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90
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PC Windows

Take control of the SCP Foundation. For the general good, find, contain, and protect SCP objects. Develop your foundation and protect it from hostile organizations, in the last resort destroy them and capture SCP objects held there.

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  • colony
  • choices
  • investigation
  • experimental
  • simulation
  • time-management
  • illuminati
  • sandbox
  • management
  • isometric
  • open-world
  • science
  • historical
  • alternate
  • top-down

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Manifold (2021)

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The game takes place in a "universe with a different set of physical laws" where the player can manipulate gravity, being able to "turn walls into floors".[6] The player must solve puzzles using the world's geometry in addition to devices within the architecture of the world.[6] To aid the player, the world's tone takes on one of six colors depending on which direction they have manipulated gravity. Several facets of the game's world may only be interacted with when the gravity is oriented directly, with these objects sharing one of the six colors.


  • puzzle
  • philosophical
  • abstract
  • 3d
  • nonlinear
  • platform
  • exploration
  • surreal
  • psychedelic
  • atmospheric
  • experimental
  • cinematic
  • scroller
  • artificial
  • intelligence

27

Apotheorasis a Lab of the Blind Gods (2022)

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PC Windows

An FPS without graphics!? Yes. Run • Blast • Dodge • Die, as you Challenge your makers to become the labrat *cough* God you were always meant to be. Close your Eyes, put on your Headphones, and let 3D Audio immerse you in this dark, twisted - and badly humorous - sci-fi world.

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  • humor
  • experimental
  • choices
  • thriller
  • dark
  • short
  • atmospheric
  • sci-fi
  • action-adventure
  • stealth
  • story
  • first-person
  • fps
  • combat

28

Pongspin (2023)

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PC Windows

A surreal, experimental take on Pong challenging you to protect a circular "core" using an orbiting paddle to deflect the ball.

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  • psychedelic
  • experimental
  • surreal
  • abstract
  • 8-bit
  • arcade
  • casual
  • attack
  • minimalist
  • score
  • music
  • pixel
  • colourful
  • minigame
  • retro

29

D'LIRIUM (2017)

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PC Windows

An experimental 2D-shooter with the elements of a horror game. D'lirium brings together some mechanics back from 90s classics. Non-linear levels, search for the keys, violence and a lot of other things. Including the colourful ponies.

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  • horror
  • editor
  • experimental
  • level
  • gore
  • shooter
  • dark
  • survival-horror
  • violent
  • short
  • top-down
  • psychological
  • multiple-endings
  • surreal
  • atmospheric

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Difficulty (2022)

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Playstation 3 PC Windows

Difficulty is a short, experimental visual novel, about both the difficulty level of stories, and the difficulties of real life. The plot, themes, challenges, and morals all become greater and harder to understand and accept as the difficulty increases.

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  • experimental
  • philosophical
  • rpg
  • dark
  • visual-novel
  • top-seller
  • gameplay
  • casual
  • abstract
  • blob
  • fantasy
  • innovative
  • single-player

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